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DL Open Thread Friday, June 24, 2022
So what do we call them? The Dingleberry Six? Five Jackoffs and a Jill? The Jan. 6 committee named five congressmen who asked Trump for preemptive pardons over their little putsch, along with hearsay that Madge Taylor Greene did, too. Her response: Nuh-uh, you’re the Nazi. The more interesting news was yesterday’s FBI raid on […]
Yesterday’s Reporting from REV and Bill – They beat me to a pithy headline
“Filibusters and Frown Lines” – pretty good. After listening, I’d have tried to bring in something that supports my previous observation that in the daily blizzard of petty corruption and laziness that is Delaware politics, it tough for the prosecutors to single out Park City’s corruption and laziness as being particularly egregious. Perhaps – “Finding […]
Five Planets Lined Up
A line of five planets will be visible during the early morning hours throughout the end of June, The best morning to look up will be June 24, three days after the summer solstice. (The solstice was at 5:13 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 21.) The five planets are Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. […]
Comment Rescue – 25% Returns & Fascism on the Menu
As I see it, the situation (in France) is the same as it is here — 38 to 44 percent of the voters are right-wing, and they’ve abandoned the moderate right because it wasn’t getting them what they want, which is to toss out all the immigrants, with special concentration on the Muslims. It is […]
Yesterday’s McGuiness trial podcast – A Choad Less Traveled
33 MINUTES AGO E185 – Kathy v Kathy Pt. 6: Facebook Wars This is the time of fake friends. As the Kathy McGuiness trial enters its second week, we begin to hear from former (and current) employees about how Kathy treats people who speak out against her. Also, how a oppo-driven trek across the state indirectly […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday June 22 2022
Senator Ron Johnson should be in jail. He wanted to hand-deliver fake electors votes to Mike Pence. That’s something I didn’t know. Good job Jan 6th hearings. Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan gun safety bill to take firearms away from dangerous people and provide billions of dollars in new mental health and ER/Trauma units in […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday June 24 2022
Lucy endlessly pulling the football away from the poor dingus, Charlie Brown, is a trite metaphor. It is also exceedingly accurate. But there’s serious déjà vu at work here (re the boyfriend loophole). In 2010, Democrats granted Chuck Grassley endless latitude to negotiate a bipartisan agreement on health care reform, wasting an entire summer when […]
Noted Doofus, Chris Coons, is Disgusted but Thinks Great Gun Compromise is Still “Possible”
Coons was in rare form on TV today. Opening with the news that he “can hardly stand serving” in the wholly disgusting US Senate anymore. (Aside – Well, fucking quit then. Give someone else a chance.) Then pivoting to being “hopeful” that “at least” billions will be invested in fully kitted out ER/trauma units and mental health facilities for all schools, because school shootings cannot (and should not #freedom!) be stopped.
Listen for yourself if you don’t believe me.
Shopping for the SS Grey Fox
After a week of being on trial, Park City must be feeling pretty good. The prosecution doesn’t seem to be getting much traction. 14 HOURS AGO E184 – Kathy v Kathy Pt. 5: Staffing Kathy As the first week of the trial came to a close, we got to take a closer look into what it […]
DL Open Thread Monday June 20 2022
Happy belated Juneteenth. I had a wonderful weekend full of not paying attention to any news and hope you did as well. This Monday we wake to Chris Coons looking like a smacked ass, the Texas GOP officially goes full MAGA calling Joe Biden the “Acting President”. A vote that should be easy for Dems (“The GOP is defunding School lunch”) but will be bungled, and the anti-centrist results of the parliamentary vote in France.
The new Texas Republican party platform calls homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” says President Biden “was not legitimately elected,” and says Texas students should “learn about the Humanity of the Preborn Child.”
A free school lunches program that helped feed millions of children during the pandemic is set to end on June 30. It could create a “perfect storm” for families already grappling with high inflation, experts say.
After five years of undisputed control of parliament, the recently re-elected Macron, known for his top-down approach to power, now enters his second term facing uncertainty over how he will deliver domestic policies such as raising the retirement age and overhauling state benefits. His centrists will need to strike compromises and expand alliances in parliament to be able to push forward his proposals to cut taxes and shake up the welfare system.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 19, 2022
SUPER-Worm To The Rescue! We might end up getting overrun by beetles, but still…: A plump larva the length of a paper clip can survive on the material that makes Styrofoam. The organism, commonly called a “superworm,” could transform the way waste managers dispose of one of the most common components in landfills, researchers said, […]
Is my client a creep and a fucking horrible person? Probably. But a criminal?
Woods’ defense of the indefensible seems to be that being a fucking asshole isn’t a crime. Listen all about it at the Highlands Bunker – then throw them a measly $5.00 a month, you creep.
As the Kathy McGuiness trial continues on, we expand our scope to all of Dover. We discuss if it’s normal to request the inboxes of dozens of former employees and walk through how house leadership holds up some bills while letting others sail through.
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Song of the Day 6/15: Black Sabbath, “Guilty as Hell”
As Jason330 noted, we all knew what’s being shown by the Jan. 6 committee. And that includes everybody who tried to pull it off. Still, there seems to be some grudging acknowledgement from the punditry that the exercise is doing some good, just days after the consensus was that it was doing no good. So […]
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